Cancers • Vol 16 • No 13
Improved Pancreatic Cancer Detection and Localization on CT Scans: A Computer-Aided Detection Model Utilizing Secondary Features
June 2024 • Mark Ramaekers, Christiaan G. A. Viviers, Terese Hellström, Lotte J S Ewals, Nick Tasios, Igor Jacobs, Joost Nederend, Fons van der Sommen, Misha Luy…
The early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is essential for optimal treatment of pancreatic cancer patients. We propose a tumor detection framework to improve the detection of pancreatic head tumors on CT scans. In this retrospective research study, CT images of 99 patients with pancreatic head cancer and 98 control cases from the Catharina Hospital Eindhoven were collected. A multi-stage 3D U-Net-based approach was used for PDAC detection including clinically significant secondary features suc…